What do you think about Linux systems?

Is it easier to find? Drivers for Windows are guaranteed to be on the official website of the program/software, but for Linux, they are in a separate place, and it's not even certain that they will be there.

Should I list the hardware for which you won't be able to find drivers for XP? At least on the official website. You can find them on Chinese or Taiwanese websites – I don't think you'd go there, and I doubt you'd even think of looking there. I'm afraid such a list would be too long.
Besides, doesn't this look like an official website? If anything, I spent no more than half a minute searching for them. There's only one driver for the network card, which supports any Nvidia card.

I'll look for utilities; I don't want to mess with the console right now.

Go to the Ubuntu Wiki – there's an answer to any question you have.

The problem is that my network card is also Nvidia.
Actually, all the problems are with Nvidia.

That's why it's a problem – because the manufacturer of this hardware writes closed-source drivers, and they cannot be included in the distribution. If the manufacturer opened the technical specifications of their hardware, drivers would have been written and made open-source long ago.

Photoshop. Will it work?
Miranda. Even Linux users admit that there's nothing better. "Kopita" is not quite the same, and it's an order of magnitude, or even several times worse. I'm too lazy to look for links.

There are alternatives that are no worse than Miranda – you just haven't looked, have you? I knew it would turn out to be Photoshop – everyone's favorite example :smile52:. Are you a professional designer? Can't you do without Photoshop? And how many people like that do you know who can't? I'm sure that even if you use Photoshop, you don't know even 10 percent of all its tools. But, fact is fact, Photoshop doesn't work out of the box like in Windows, but it can be set up if it's really needed. And, as we can see, there are only a few such programs.

Not all programs work as they should under Wine, as Linux users say. Digging into the source code?
Why? If there's no alternative that I like more.

I'm just saying that Linux also has its drawbacks; it's not perfect either. And it's definitely not for ordinary users, but rather for experienced ones. But that's just my opinion.

I understand you. This is a well-established stereotype. It comes from long-term use of Windows. Switching from Windows to Linux is very difficult for most people because they are deeply rooted in it – they are very used to it. This is very sad. If a child who is using a computer for the first time is not shown Windows, they will master the computer under Linux much faster than under Windows. And at the moment, the situation is that 95 percent of users are constantly struggling with their computer; they can't properly configure Windows. We're just so used to it...

P.S. This is a flame war. I don't think it makes sense to continue. If a person is comfortable using Windows, I don't see any reason why they shouldn't. If it's difficult for them to type three words into Google and read a couple of pages, they won't be able to see what Linux is. But it's a big misconception to think that this is a problem with Linux.